Hospital garment



Oct. 5, 1943. L. SEVERANCE HOSPITAL GARMENT Original Filed Oct. 23. 1939 .31 INVENTOR.

0611?? ,J mram'e Ma ATTORNEY.

seamed Oct. 5, 1 943 UNITED; STATES PATENT OFFICE,

2,331,051 HOSPITAL GARMENT Louise Severance, New York, N. Y.

Substituted for abandoned application Serial No. a 300,769, October 23, 1939. This application July 21, 1943, Serial No. 495,630

1 Claim. (om-114) This application is a substitute for my applitober 23, 1939. This invention relates to hospital garments and is herein illustratedas embodied in a gar- 'ment especially suited for the patient in convalescence orfor such patients required to spend a great deal of time in bed, as is required of patients in sanitariums or those permanently disabled, such as many are in government hospitals and public institutions.

' cation Serial No. 300,769, which was filed on V The model herein illustrated has an attached" collar which folds over, giving the appearance of a tailored soft shirt collar, permitting the quick adjustment of a" neck-tie. The absence of any opening in the front of the coat and the form which permits the use of a neck-tie allows the patient to don a dressing gown quickly and without the effort of changing" from one garment to another and'at the sametime giving the apearance of beingcompletely dressed.

A closed front with the additional luxury of three large pockets, one with stitched space for pencil or pen; adequat ly covering the body and at the same time allowing easy accessibility to the body for any required treatment, assures the feeling of refinement from undue exposure and gives the appearance of normalitywhen the dressing gown is worn over this type of coat. These garments meet the psychological need in; affecting the appearance of the patient, made possible in design and construction as well asv adequately meeting the need of the doctor and nurse in the medicalcare of the patient. I This is a problem never before been solvedrin .the

required clothing for hospitalization. In the form illustrated the sleeves include overlapping front and rear breadths which are left unstitched so that the sleeves are readily opened p to armhole l2. Under'the armholes the front breadth I0 is stitched by a vertical seam to a right back breadth l3 and a left back breadth l4, and each back breadth l3, l4 also stitched to the front breadth ID by a shoulder seam I5.

Each sleeve I6 is made. by stitchingback breadth I! to the edge of thearmhole 12 so that I the front edge of the back breadth ll lies about an inch in front of the shoulder. seani l5, and

' of the armhole II.

also stitching the front breadth l8 to the edge But the front breadth!!! overlies the-backbreadth l1 at the armhole Ii because its top edge l9 lies about an inohbehind the-shoulder seam l5.

The sleeve I6 is shown as ending in acuif 20 to which the frontsleeve breadth l8 and the back sleeve breadth H are both stitched so as to leave the ends 2| and 22 of the cuff open.

This permits thegarment to be put on to a patient without slipping the sleeves over the I patients arms, because all that is needed is to pass the armhole over the patients hand and up the arm. The cuff is then closed by passing the long end 22 through .a slot 23 in the'cuff end 2| a little behind the'edge 19 where it joins the cuff.

The end 22 button 25 and the end 2| is buttoned to a button26. I i

Tonause the-sleeve I6 to fall properly over the arm, each sleeve front breadth is shown asineluding athree-quarter inch lengthwise tuck 21 at the shoulder seam I5, the tuck extending down 7 to the cuff 20 at the slot 23. In the form shown the garment includes a collar 28, nearly divided'at 29 in front and adapted to fold over a neck-tie, and open at the neck but adapted to be" closed there by a button so;

e on the broad seam 3] which forms the edge of the garment, and'ove'r which is buttoned, the .buttonhole 32;

The garment is-shown as provided with side pockets s3 and with aleft hand breast pocket 34 which includes a stitched compartment 35 hold.

a penor pencil.

'On one of the side'seams 36 is shown'a loop 31 for holding a belt 38 adapted to betied around thewaist. f Q

The single collar button and the belt-adequately hold the garment on the collar presenting a I handsome appearance, the sleeves adequately covering the wearers arms, yet by releasing the button and the cuffs and the belt, the garment maybe slipped off the patient with almost no exertion by the patient.

Having thus described one embodiment of the I invention, what is claimed isi Ahospital garment having a open back and forming abody with armholes, a sleeve at each armhole and including a front breadth and a back breadth'leaving-an opening between them, a shoulder seam running to each armhole, the back breadths springing from the armholes in front of the shoulderseams, the front breadths overlying part of the, back breadths. and springing'at their rear edges from 1 the rear of the armholes behind the topshoulder seams, and continuations of'the sleeve openings,

forming open cuffs for the sleeves.

. LOUISE SEVERANCE."

is buttoned by a buttonhole-24 to e closed front and 

